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With the 2018-19 League One season coming up, The Football Lab spoke to Gillingham fan Ben Thompson (@ThommoGFC). If you were to only look at the final league position of 17th, you would think Gillingham had a quiet season last year. Given the extreme highs and lows you experienced though, it must have felt very… Read more →

Dartford v Swindon Dartford have scored more goals than any other team in the National League South, with ex-Millwall fringe striker Alfie Pavey looking a real prospect since joining. Swindon though have an impressive Lions loanee up top in Harry Smith, who has scored two goals in his last three games. The Robins had an… Read more →

When Mark Marshall and Billy Clarke swapped West Yorkshire for South London this summer, the former was tipped to be more important to Charlton Athletic’s promotion hopes. In fact, Marshall has only played 37 minutes of football due to injury, while Clarke has only missed 67. Karl Robinson’s decision to drop the latter to the… Read more →

We’re eight games into the EFL season – here’s our round-up of the top 10 best signing of the season so far. David Forde – Goalkeeper – Cambridge United There were stages at Portsmouth last season where it looked like David Forde’s age might have been catching up with him. He lost some of his… Read more →

After a pulsating afternoon, Accrington Stanley beat 10-man Chesterfield 2-1 thanks to goals from Billy Kee and Mallik Wilks. Here’s six key talking points from an enthralling game. Stanley’s strong start The visitors started at a high intensity in the first 10 minutes, playing out from the back and often attacking down the right. Wing-back… Read more →

Accrington Stanley performed well in the cups last season and finished just five points off the play-offs. Even though the club did not quite scale the heights of 15/16, there was still much to be proud of. Supporter Sarah Knight reflects on the campaign. The club did perform well early in the season with the cups matches which… Read more →

Kevin Nolan has gone straight from a Premier League playing career into League Two management. His last game for West Ham came in August 2015, five months before he took the reigns at Leyton Orient, with no coaching roles in between. To do so, he may have assumed two things: firstly, that the leadership qualities… Read more →

Here are The Football Lab’s Predictions of 13 of this weekend’s 40 FA Cup First Round matches. We start at The Den… Millwall v Southend Millwall manager Neil Harris started the 2004 FA Cup Final up front for the Lions, but his relationship with the competition as a manager has not been so positive. His… Read more →

Until August, Omar Beckles had not played a single Football League game. The centre-back was signed by Accrington Stanley, then handed the unenviable task of replacing Tom Davies, who left for big-spending Portsmouth. Beckles has in fact proved a more than worthy replacement. He helped Stanley to an unbeaten September run of five league games,… Read more →

“Sometimes I wish we had the ability to do that” Accrington Stanley manager John Coleman said of Carlisle United’s route one approach after a 1-1 draw at Brunton Park. His side’s defence had actually dealt with the long balls and set pieces fairly well, Bristol City loanee Zack Vyner impressing at centre-back on his debut. Coleman’s… Read more →